Community Aspects – Page 36 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Workshop: Scientific Work — Positions & Advisers

2012-09-05

Perhaps the most important criteria that determines ones' success in science in the beginning: Which job you take and who advises you. I so wish I had known this earlier.
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Seeing your scientific discipline with laymen’s eyes

2012-08-17

A reference to a paper about the science of spilled coffee and what you can learn from it -- no, not about the coffee.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Requirements

2012-08-11

What are the requirements to work in science? They might not be that obvious -- here are some.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Some Comments About Science

2012-08-03

A few basic things about feeling stupid in science and the difference between studying a subject and doing a PhD thesis in it.
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Workshop: Scientific Work – Why Do a Workshop About Scientific Work?

2012-08-02

Let's address the motivation for this series -- and what a disservice departments do to their PhD students when they do not teach work methods.
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Workshop: Scientific Work – Overview

2012-08-02

I'm writing a series of postings about scientific work, based on a workshop I did. Here's the outline and the links to the individual postings.
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Learning about Work Methods for Doing Scientific Work

2012-07-15

How do you learn about work methods when you should actually doing the work? Some suggestions that involve workshops and workers and work profiles -- in short, work to make work work.
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Choose a domain you love

2012-06-19

The G-sport and why choosing a domain your love matters.
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Collaborative Editing of Text Documents (e.g., Project Proposals)

2012-06-19

Let's compare Word with Scrivener -- e.g., in terms of personal responsibility.
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An eye-opening example of scientific responsibility

2012-06-15

Probably one of the best papers when it comes to highlighting the need to deal responsibly with new technology.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.